Bergamo airport in Italy, which serves low-cost flights to and from nearby Milan, temporarily suspended operations on Monday after a man died on the runway as a plane was being prepared for takeoff, Reuters reported.
Flights were suspended from 10:20 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. "due to a problem on the taxiway," the airport said in a statement, adding that authorities were investigating the incident.
A spokesman confirmed that the deceased was a man and added that he was neither a passenger nor an airport employee.
According to the Italian news agency ANSA, the man was sucked into the engine of a low-cost airline plane preparing for takeoff.
The Spanish airline's press service and the police in Bergamo have not yet commented on the incident, Reuters notes.